Assault on Normandy – Review by Phil Hodges
Here we have another DVD in the Assault on Normandy range from our friends at Pen &Sword.This film as the title suggests focuses on the…
HAL MOORE and STEMMING THE TIDE – Book Reviews by Mark Barnes
The qualities of leadership examined: Two excellent books taking us from the Great War to the Highlands of Vietnam expose how the qualities a…
BUCCANEER BOYS – Review by Mark Barnes
If things seem bad today, then a look at the 1960s shows a time when the fortunes of Her Majesty’s Armed Forces were really beginning…
ARMOURED HUSSARS – Images of the Polish 1st Armoured Division 1939-47 – Review by Mark Barnes
Here we have an eagerly awaited book that does not take much reviewing. The author’s father Alexsander was a warrant officer who gave a life…
WARS, PESTILENCE AND THE SURGEON’S BLADE – Review by Phil Hodges
The shout from the virtual War History Online office of ‘Who wants a book on Military Medicine?’ fell initially on deaf ears. It’s a specialist…
WHIRLWIND – Westland’s Enigmatic Fighter – Review by Mark Barnes
The Westland Whirlwind was designed in the late 1930s when the Air Ministry were looking for a cannon armed fighter to supplement the specification for…
CARIBBEAN VOLUNTEERS AT WAR – Review by Mark Barnes
It was the Friday of another Longest Week and I was ploughing through the mud at the swampy finale to the War & Peace Show’s…
WOLFHILDE’S HITLER YOUTH DIARY 1939-46 – Review by Mark Barnes
We were sent this interesting book from the United States where the rise in publication of personal accounts and diaries through self-publishing and, equally importantly,…
BRITISH BATTLESHIPS 1889-1904, BRITISH BATTLESHIPS OF WORLD WAR ONE and BRITISH BATTLESHIPS 1919-1945
This is one of those occasions when I need us to look back at a review published some time ago that is fine as it…
D-DAY – THE LAST OF THE LIBERATORS – Some of the Last Veterans of the Normandy Landings Retrace Their Steps Seventy Years Later
On the day Operation Goodwood started in July 1944; Kenneth Sturdy found himself in the unenviable position of being the target of bombs dropped short…
ARMAGEDDON’S WALLS – British Pill Boxes 1914-1918. Review by Phil Hodges
The parcel had barely hit the floor. When this book arrived such was the anticipation I couldn’t wait to devour it from cover to cover…
LAWRENCE IN ARABIA, War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East. Review by Mark Barnes
A much younger me tried to read the Seven Pillars of Wisdom and failed. I suppose I was looking for a war adventure book…